CF / File weight

[Cécile Roland]

Hi!
It seems I can't find the detailed spec of the RED CF, notably the 16Gb one. How fast is it really? (how many Mb/s?) Does it allow us to use the whole R1 capacity, or any restriction using the CF instead of RedDrive?

How a 16Gb - 300x (45Mb/s) would work with R1?

Could someone explain me how I can calculate the weight of Red footages accoding to its duration and formats?

Hey guys, Red is too exciting, I've got plenty of questions but I'll stop here (for now inch: ) !!

Thanks

 

[Loic Parent]

Hi Cécile,
don't really know about the detailed spec of the red cf, but if you are looking for a third party card the reference seems to be the lexar 300x 8gig.
take a look at rob galbraith's performance database:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007

but remind that substained rates are not really important from a photo pov.

as for the weight of Red footages, red codecs are wavelet compressed so it depends on what is actually filmed, but if you have a iphone a strongly recommend you the iSee4k app! it gives you an estimation of the weight fonction of the redcode rate, fps and resolution.
http://www.isee4k.com/

best!

 

[Cécile Roland]

Thanks,
thought I would never get any answer...
How come we can't get the detailed spec of the Red CF? Are they keeping it secret so we don't go for a third party one? hm...

I'll take a look at this app although I don't have an iPhone (YET)!